Speaker Group: Keynote 2024.

Katherine Savage

Katherine leads EY’s UK FS People Consulting practice and has extensive experience creating effective HR and Total Reward strategies across leading global organisations. Supporting her clients navigate workforce disruptions through better understanding future skill requirements, strategic workforce planning, skills inferencing, enhancing career mobility and prioritising the ESG (inclusive of DE&I and social mobility) within the… Read more »

Tina Johne

Tina Johne leads the global Innovation & Digital Business Management for Healthcare at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. Tina interacts at all levels of stakeholders advising on digital health platforms, ecosystems, data strategy and businesses, and ideas on new approaches to create smart hospital environments. With over 20 years of experience in the MedTech Business and close… Read more »

Rick Lennard

As Executive Commercial Director for The New Hospital Programme (NHP) in NHS England, Rick is a passionate industry executive, experienced in leading complex programmes and commercial models. The NHP is designed to transform how we deliver major healthcare projects in England, building hospitals that will revolutionise the healthcare sector and set a new standard for… Read more »

James Blood

James leads on everything to do with IT, BIM, CGI and Automation across SGP. His work takes him across all regions & sectors, with Health and Logistics being particularly active currently. He heads up SGP’s IT, BIM, CGI and Automation groups covering business functions and BIM & CGI services. He is currently a member of… Read more »

Prof. Rebecca Shipley OBE

Becky is Professor of Healthcare Engineering in UCL Mechanical Engineering. Her research develops model-based techniques to better understand how diseased and damaged tissues function and repair, data-driven models for predicting physiology, and healthcare technologies that meet the needs of patients and clinicians. Becky is a passionate advocate for healthcare engineering and the translation of scientific… Read more »

Matt Ward

As National Strategy Lead for NHS Infrastructure at NHS England, Matt is responsible for overseeing a national approach to system planning and works with ICBs to drive forward long-term strategy development. He is passionate about system transformation that delivers better outcomes for people and focuses his time on ensuring that this is built into all… Read more »

Michael Wood

Michael is the Head of Health Economic Partnerships at the NHS Confederation. As Head of Health Economic Partnerships, Michael advises NHS leaders nationally and locally on policy, strategy, partnerships and funding relating to the local economy, including in areas such as skills and workforce, estates, innovation, population health and finance. Prior to this he developed… Read more »

Wayne Carr

Wayne has over 30 years’ experience of managing and delivering professional healthcare Estates & Facilities services in both the NHS and PFI Sectors holding senior management roles in a number of NHS Trusts. He is currently Director of Estates, Facilities and Clinical Engineering  for City Hospitals Independant Commercial Enterprises (CHoICE), the subsidiary company for South… Read more »

Prof. John Sandham CEng FIHEEM

John is Executive Advisor to MTS health, and chairman of the EBME Expo. He is recognised as an expert in his field of healthcare technology management, is a senior research fellow at Middlesex University, and has been supervising post graduate MSc students at Birmingham City University. He has been instrumental in changing device management policies… Read more »

Caroline Finlay

Caroline co-founded MTS Health in 1999 following an 18-year career working directly for the NHS mainly working within EBME under the management of Estates but culminating with a role as Head of Medical Equipment Management (MEMS) at Kings College Hospital, London. MTS Health has become the market leader in equipment advisory services including a significant… Read more »